Our Spot: Happiness is...

Monday, May 19, 2008

Happiness is...

5 comments:

Sara said...: Wow, you have some serious talent!; May 20, 2008 at 9:21 PM
kg said...: Pretty!!; May 21, 2008 at 6:33 AM
Elizabeth said...: I still remember that pic you painted of a park setting that you had by the table in your dining room in Corvallis. Loved it! You are so talented.; May 21, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Alyce Dribnak said...: I like it a lot! My big poppies are just starting to pop. Your welcome to come over and take a picture and then do a watercolor of it. hint hint hint.....; May 23, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Nate / Mary said...: All I can say is WOW!!
You truly are talented!!; May 23, 2008 at 11:40 PM

Spotlights

Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.